#georgewbush — Public Fediverse posts

Sept. 11 transformed America by expanding presidential power, eroding privacy, civil liberties and reshaping national security and in ways that still define the country today. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/09/14/world/broken-world-sept-11-created/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #911 #donaldtrump #middleeast #us #iraq #arabspring #syria #egypt #georgewbush #guantanamobay #barackobama #iran #supremecourt #osamabinladen #terrorism #alqaida

Context: 2001 New York Baseball, Bush first pitch toss in NYC two weeks after 9.11.2001. Interviews, what powerful people were thinking, including Barbara Lee, Baseball players, White House including Bush, and anthrax fears. Very interesting quotation (interview) essay structure by Garrett Graff.
#911Anniversary #25years #GeorgeWBush #baseball #waronterror

https://www.europesays.com/people/225780/ Pete Hegseth can’t read the room in 9/11 Pentagon tribute … to Trump #9/11Attacks #AmericanAirlines #CondoleezzaRice #DefenseSecretary #DonaldTrump #GeorgeWBush #Iran #pentagon #PeteHegseth #Sept11 #WorldTradeCenter

https://www.europesays.com/people/225518/ Pete Hegseth can’t read the room in 9/11 Pentagon tribute … to Trump #9/11Attacks #AmericanAirlines #CondoleezzaRice #DefenseSecretary #DonaldTrump #GeorgeWBush #Iran #pentagon #PeteHegseth #Sept11 #WorldTradeCenter

Meanwhile, al-Qaeda released a video marking the 25th anniversary featuring footage of Osama bin Laden. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/osama-bin-laden-cia-and-george-w-bush-what-declassified-9-11-files-reveal-after-25-years-wrmy97os?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #911attacks #CIA #OsamabinLaden #GeorgeWBush #terrorism

Meanwhile, al-Qaeda released a video marking the 25th anniversary featuring footage of Osama bin Laden. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/osama-bin-laden-cia-and-george-w-bush-what-declassified-9-11-files-reveal-after-25-years-wrmy97os?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #911attacks #CIA #OsamabinLaden #GeorgeWBush #terrorism

Meanwhile, al-Qaeda released a video marking the 25th anniversary featuring footage of Osama bin Laden. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/osama-bin-laden-cia-and-george-w-bush-what-declassified-9-11-files-reveal-after-25-years-wrmy97os?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #911attacks #CIA #OsamabinLaden #GeorgeWBush #terrorism

Meanwhile, al-Qaeda released a video marking the 25th anniversary featuring footage of Osama bin Laden. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/osama-bin-laden-cia-and-george-w-bush-what-declassified-9-11-files-reveal-after-25-years-wrmy97os?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #911attacks #CIA #OsamabinLaden #GeorgeWBush #terrorism

"Never before in history has a president of the United States had such a close relationship with another foreign power as President Bush and his father have had with the Saudi royal family, the House of Saud." #usa #georgewbush #bush #carlylegroup #saudi #911attacks #september11 #terrorism #treason https://dn711309.ca.archive.org/0/items/9-11_20250216/The%20Bush%20-%20Saudi%20Connection.pdf

"Never before in history has a president of the United States had such a close relationship with another foreign power as President Bush and his father have had with the Saudi royal family, the House of Saud." #usa #georgewbush #bush #carlylegroup #saudi #911attacks #september11 #terrorism #treason https://dn711309.ca.archive.org/0/items/9-11_20250216/The%20Bush%20-%20Saudi%20Connection.pdf

"Never before in history has a president of the United States had such a close relationship with another foreign power as President Bush and his father have had with the Saudi royal family, the House of Saud." #usa #georgewbush #bush #carlylegroup #saudi #911attacks #september11 #terrorism #treason https://dn711309.ca.archive.org/0/items/9-11_20250216/The%20Bush%20-%20Saudi%20Connection.pdf

"Never before in history has a president of the United States had such a close relationship with another foreign power as President Bush and his father have had with the Saudi royal family, the House of Saud." #usa #georgewbush #bush #carlylegroup #saudi #911attacks #september11 #terrorism #treason https://dn711309.ca.archive.org/0/items/9-11_20250216/The%20Bush%20-%20Saudi%20Connection.pdf

Danny Shaw: 11-S de 2001 fue consecuencia de la política exterior de EE.UU.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.telesurtv.net/danny-shaw-11-s-consecuencia-politica-eeuu/

9/11: The "Official Story" Is a Fairy Tale for Adults

Two planes. Three buildings. A trillion-dollar accounting error. A passport that survived a fireball. If you believe the government's version, you'll believe anything.

Three Towers, Two Planes, One Impossible Physics Problem

Let's start with the simplest fact that no one in the mainstream media wants to explain: on September 11, 2001, two planes hit two buildings, but three buildings fell down.

World Trade Center Building 7 was a 47-story skyscraper that was not hit by any plane. It suffered only minor fires and superficial damage. Yet at 5:20 PM that afternoon, it collapsed into its own footprint at virtually free-fall speed — the signature of a controlled demolition.

Building 7 housed the offices of the Secret Service, the CIA, and — most crucially — the US Securities and Exchange Commission. All the files for approximately 3,000 to 4,000 SEC cases, including the Enron scandal, were destroyed in that collapse.

Enron. The biggest corporate fraud in American history. The investigation files. Gone.

And what did the 9/11 Commission Report say about Building 7? Nothing. Not a single word.

If that doesn't make you pause, nothing will.

The "Pull It" Moment

Larry Silverstein, the leaseholder of the World Trade Center complex, gave an interview for a PBS documentary in which he described the decision-making on September 11. His words: "I remember getting a call from the fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, 'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.' And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse."

"Pull it."

In demolition industry terminology, "pull" means to bring a building down with explosives. Silverstein's spokesman later claimed he meant "pull the firefighters out" — but you don't "pull" firefighters. You pull buildings. And Building 7 came down in a textbook controlled demolition.

Six Weeks Before

Here's a detail that should have been on the front page of every newspaper: Larry Silverstein signed the lease for the World Trade Center just six weeks before 9/11.

Six weeks.

And what did he do almost immediately after signing that lease? He negotiated a massive insurance policy — $3.55 billion in coverage, with a clause specifically covering terrorism.

The previous insurance on the property was roughly half that amount. Silverstein reportedly insisted on the terrorism clause. And after the attacks, he went to court arguing that because two planes hit two towers, he should be paid twice — nearly $7 billion.

A man leases a property six weeks before its destruction, quadruples the insurance, adds terrorism coverage, and then argues for a double payout. In any other context, investigators would call that a motive.

The Mastermind in a Cave

The official story tells us that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged "mastermind" of 9/11, coordinated the entire operation from a cave in Afghanistan using a phone and a laptop.

A man on dialysis. In a cave. In one of the most remote regions on Earth. Directing the most sophisticated terrorist attack in history, coordinating 19 hijackers across the United States, managing flight schools, finances, and logistics — all from a cave.

Meanwhile, the hijackers allegedly brought down the World Trade Center with box cutters. Utility knives. Against trained pilots and crew. And they supposedly overpowered the passengers on four separate flights.

If you believe that, you also believe that a passport belonging to one of the hijackers — Satam al-Suqami — survived the fireball explosion that supposedly cremated him, flew out of his pocket, and landed intact on the street blocks away, ready to be found by investigators.

The bodies of hundreds of victims were never recovered. But the hijacker's passport? Pristine.

The President Who Knew

On the morning of September 11, President George W. Bush was at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, reading "The Pet Goat" to a group of second-graders.

He was informed that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. He stayed in the classroom for another five to seven minutes.

Later, in December 2001 and again in January 2002, Bush claimed he saw the first plane hit the tower on television before entering the classroom. "I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower," he said.

But here's the problem: no cameras were trained on the World Trade Center at the time of the first impact. No live footage of the first plane hitting the North Tower existed until much later. The first crash was not broadcast live.

So how did Bush see it?

Either he was lying, or he had prior knowledge. His spokesman later called it a "mistaken recollection".

A mistaken recollection about the most significant event of his presidency. Right.

The Pentagon: The Day Before and the Day Of

On September 10, 2001 — one day before the attacks — Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave a speech at the Pentagon. In that speech, he admitted something extraordinary:

"According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions."

$2.3 trillion. Missing. Unaccounted for. The day before the Pentagon was hit.

The following day, a plane — or something — struck the Pentagon. And the very section of the building that was hit? The area where the accounting and financial records were kept.

The missing money? The records that might have explained it? Destroyed.

Less than 48 hours after Rumsfeld admitted the Pentagon couldn't account for trillions, the evidence went up in flames. If you're a conspiracy theorist, that's not a coincidence. That's a cover-up.

No Plane, No Bodies, No Parts

The Pentagon is one of the most secure buildings on Earth. Cameras cover every inch of it. Multiple security cameras recorded the approach.

Not a single frame showing the plane hitting the Pentagon was released to the public for years. When footage was finally released in 2006, it was grainy, low-resolution, and showed nothing clearly identifiable as a Boeing 757.

The hole in the Pentagon was approximately five meters across — far too small for a 757 with a wingspan of nearly 38 meters. Conspiracy theorists pointed out that the lawn was clean after the attack, with no wing debris, no tail section, no engines.

At most plane crashes around the world, you find bodies, seats, luggage, engine parts, landing gear — debris scattered across a wide area. At the Pentagon, the official story claims the plane completely disintegrated on impact, vaporized by the heat of the explosion.

But if the plane vaporized, why were there no bodies? Why no plane parts? Why did witnesses describe a missile or a military aircraft?

And why did the government fight so hard to keep the footage secret?

The Dancing Israelis

On the morning of September 11, five men were arrested in Liberty State Park, New Jersey. They had been videotaping the attacks — and witnesses reported they were celebrating, "dancing" as the towers burned.

They worked for a company called Urban Moving Systems, which the FBI later determined was a Mossad front.

They were detained, interrogated, and eventually deported. The official explanation? They were just "celebrating" — nothing to see here.

But if five men with cameras and a Mossad cover company were positioned to film the attacks before they happened, that suggests foreknowledge. And foreknowledge suggests involvement.

The Passport and the Phone Call

We already mentioned the hijacker passport that survived the fireball. But let's add another detail.

The alleged hijackers were supposedly led by a man on dialysis in a cave who used a satellite phone and a laptop to coordinate everything.

But satellite phones in Afghanistan in 2001? Laptops in caves? The logistics are absurd. The 9/11 Commission itself found that the attacks were planned and executed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — a man who was later captured and waterboarded 183 times. The "intelligence" used to justify the Iraq War came from torture. And the CIA destroyed the tapes of those interrogations.

The evidence is gone. The "mastermind" was tortured into confession. And the American public was told to accept it.

What the 9/11 Commission Didn't Investigate

The 9/11 Commission was delayed, underfunded, and based on testimony extracted from torture.

It didn't mention Building 7. It didn't investigate who funded the attacks. It didn't examine Operation Able Danger, the military intelligence program that allegedly identified some of the hijackers before 9/11. It didn't look at the war games being conducted on the morning of 9/11 — simulations of hijacked planes flying into buildings — that were running at the exact same time as the real attacks.

President Bush and Vice President Cheney testified in secret, off the record, not under oath, and behind closed doors.

What were they hiding?

The Pattern

Two planes. Three buildings. A leaseholder with terrorism insurance. A president who "saw" a crash that wasn't broadcast. A Pentagon with $2.3 trillion missing. No plane footage. No bodies. No parts. A passport that survived a fireball. Five Israelis filming and celebrating. A commission that investigated nothing.

You don't have to have all the answers to know that the official story doesn't add up. You just have to be willing to look at the facts and ask the question that the mainstream media refuses to ask:

Who benefited?

The military-industrial complex got a blank check for endless war. The surveillance state got the PATRIOT Act. The financial crimes of Enron and others got buried in the rubble of Building 7. And the American people got a story — a story that falls apart the moment you examine it.

Two planes did not bring down three towers.

Wake up.

Ein junger Mann aus Bremen wird nach 9/11 aus Pakistan in das illegale US-Lager nach Guantánamo verschleppt. Für ihn gibt es keinen Prozess, statt dessen erlebt er Folter und Isolation. Sein einziges Verbrechen: Er wurde geboren in Deutschland, ist Muslim und war zur falschen Zeit am falschen Ort. Während die Welt noch diskutiert, ob der „Krieg gegen den Terror“ überhaupt zu gewinnen ist, kämpft Rabiye Kurnaz, seine Mutter, für das Offensichtliche: Dass ihr Sohn Murat ein Mensch ist und Rechte hat. Ein besonderer Film von Andreas Dresen. (ARD, Wh.)

Ein junger Mann aus Bremen wird nach 9/11 aus Pakistan in das illegale US-Lager nach Guantánamo verschleppt. Kein Prozess, statt dessen Folter und Isolation. Sein einziges Verbrechen: Er wurde geboren in Deutschland, ist Muslim und war zur falschen Zeit am falschen Ort. Während die Welt noch diskutiert hat, ob der „Krieg gegen den Terror“ überhaupt zu gewinnen ist, kämpft Rabiye Kurnaz, seine Mutter, für das Offensichtliche: Dass ihr Sohn Murat ein Mensch ist und Rechte hat. Ein Film von Andreas Dresen. (ARD, Wh.)

#OnThisDay in 2006, American blues legend #BBKing is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by US President #GeorgeWBush.

Andreas Dresen – „Rabiye Kurnaz gegen George W. Bush“ (2022)

Ein junger Mann aus Bremen wird nach 9/11 aus Pakistan in das illegale US-Lager nach Guantánamo verschleppt. Kein Prozess, statt dessen Folter und Isolation. Sein einziges Verbrechen: Er wurde geboren in Deutschland, ist muslimisch und war zur falschen Zeit am falschen Ort. Während die Welt noch diskutiert hat, ob der „Krieg gegen den Terror“ überhaupt zu gewinnen ist, hat Rabiye Kurnaz, seine Mutter, für das Offensichtliche gekämpft: Dass ihr Sohn Murat ein Mensch ist und ebensolche Rechte hat. (ARD)

“If we want to be able to see what’s happening, we’ll have to be in the front”

"Police hate to be outflanked—they can’t risk being surrounded themselves."

https://crimethinc.com/2025/01/28/its-safer-in-the-front-taking-the-offensive-against-tyranny

#fear #frontLine #struggles #Bush #GeorgeWBush #IraqWar #comrades #collectives #crowdManagement #WashingtonDC #anarchists #antiFascists #territory #kettling #responsibility #tearGas #agency #demos #demonstrations #protests

#Trump Is Building a #GlobalGulag for #Immigrants Captured by #ICE

The U.S. is in talks with 19 nations, including #Libya, #Kosovo, #Rwanda, and #Moldova to accept deportees from other countries.

Nick Turse, Jonah Valdez
May 15 2025,

Excerpt: "In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the #GeorgeWBush administration created a worldwide network of secret prisons and torture sites as part of its global war on terror. Its crown jewel, the Guantánamo Bay detention center, was established in January 2002 as a place for the United States to hold so-called enemy combatants.

"The U.S. government chose the U.S. Naval Station Guantánamo Bay because it was seeking a site where neither U.S. nor international law applied — a legal black hole where they could disappear people indefinitely. Over time, Guantánamo became emblematic of gross human rights abuses. “Forever prisoners” of the war on terror are still being held there today. Others caught up in America’s counterterrorism dragnet were detained at torture prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq or kidnapped and 'rendered' to CIA black sites — secret prisons in at least eight countries around the world.

"As the Trump administration has expanded the Bush and #Obama-era terrorism paradigm to cast immigrants and refugees as terrorists and gang members, it has reconceptualized rendition and even pressed Guantánamo Bay into service as a way station for Venezuelan men expelled to El Salvador."

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/15/trump-ice-immigrants-deport-prisons-cecot-libya/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/07iRS

#SilencingDissent #Authoritarianism #AuthoritarianRule #USPol #WorldPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #ResistICE #PoliceState